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Right now, I use most as my pager. While it has helpful syntax highlighting for man pages, it lacks colored syntax highlighting for anything else (I'm specifically looking for diff/C++). Meanwhile, pygments is a wonderful program. I can easily make colorized output with it: # ./pygmentize -f console256 ${file} hg diff | ./pygmentize -f console256 -l diff Now, I would like to be able to page the output, so I just use: # ./pygmentize -f console256 ${file} | most hg diff | ./pygmentize -f console256 -l diff | most At this point, most dumps all the colorizing control characters to my screen like so: ^[[38;5;28;01mclass^[[39;00m ^[[38;5;21;01mheap_allocator^[[39;00m { ^[[38;5;28;01mpublic^[[39;00m^[[38;5;241m:^[[39m This is, of course, unreadable. I looked though the man page for most , but I couldn't find any "Hey, show those control characters as colors instead of printing them" options. less has the same garbage behavior as most , but more shows the colors perfectly fine, with the obvious limitations of being more . Is there a pager that supports syntax highlighting or some crazy combination of parameters and programs I can string together to make this work? Ultimately, I would like to get diffs and logs from Mercurial to be highlighted, so maybe there is a shortcut in there...

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